PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN SERVICES ORDINANCE 1960. (No. 30 of 1960).
FOOD BUSINESS (NEW TERRITORIES) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 1965.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 56 of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance 1960, the Governor in Council bas made the following regulations-----
1. These regulations may be cited as the Food Business (New Citation. Territories) (Amendment) Regulations 1965.
23.
2. Regulation 23 of the Food Business (New Territories) Regula- Amendment tions 1963 (hereinafter referred to as the principal regulations) is of regulation amended by the insertion, after paragraph (1) of the following new (L,N, 63/63). paragraph--
"(1A) Failure by any person engaged in or taking part in any food business, or, as the case may be, in any such food business as may be specified by notification under paragraph (2), on demand to produce for inspection by any health inspector or health officer a valid certificate of vaccination against smallpox or of inoculation against the enteric group of fevers or, as the case may be, of immunization against such other disease as may be so specified shall be prima facie evidence in any court of the commission by such person of a contravention of the provisions of paragraph (1).”.
3. The principal regulations are amended by the addition, after Addition of regulation 23, of the following new regulation-
"Prohibition
of employ. ment in food business of
persons not immunized
ngainst
cemmin
diseases.
23A. (1) No proprietor of any food business, or, as the case may be, of any such food business as may be specified by notification under paragraph (2) of regulation 23, shall employ any person in, or cause or permit any person to be engaged in or to take part in, such business unless that person-
(4) has, within the preceding period of three years,
been vaccinated against smallpox;
(b) has, within the preceding period of one year, been inoculated against the enteric group of fevers; and
(c) is immunized against such other disease as may
be so specified.
(2) Failure by the proprietor of any food business, or, as the case may be, of any such food business as may be so specified, on demand to obtain the production of, or to
new regula. tion 23A,